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InterPunct t1_jdt9bnh wrote
Reply to comment by nowhereman136 in TIL the New York Times, in 1944, Introduced Readers to an Exciting New Food: Pizza by FatherWinter
> >"I served with a guy named Gino in the Pacific, he kept raving about this thing called pizza"
You're not very far off at all. My dad joined the navy in 1944 at the Brooklyn NY Navy Yard and ended up spending time in occupied Japan. He got a kick from telling the other sailors about all the exotic food from back home like pizza, bagels, Coney Island "frankfurters" (as he called them,) and this crazy food called spaghetti and meatballs.
InterPunct t1_j9d3vbn wrote
Reply to TIL In 1897, the US Government created "The Board of Tea Experts" to taste test every lot of imported tea, to ensure that the tea tasted good. The Board was abolished in 1996. by Ihatethemuffinman
Abolished long after statistical sampling was a well-understood practice.
InterPunct t1_j61x0l1 wrote
Reply to TIL to decide what measurement system America should use, John Quincy Adams took 3 1/2 years to produce a 268 page Report on Weights and Measures that ultimately concluded changing to the French metric system would be too difficult for the young nation. Congress took no action on the report. by iamveryDerp
The Imperial system is our underappreciated homage to our English cousins.
InterPunct t1_j61oxjg wrote
Reply to comment by KittyBizkit in Energy consumption in the US from 1776-2014 by MCgamingMC
>but most people are far more afraid of nuclear.
Godzilla, after all.
InterPunct t1_j61l754 wrote
My elementary school education demanded we flawlessly and elegantly write in cursive with a fountain pen, no less. My current penmanship style is somewhere between cipher code and chicken scratching. But I can still really appreciate good, artistic penmanship. AI is crazy good in some respects.
InterPunct t1_j61kc3l wrote
Reply to comment by YachtingChristopher in Energy consumption in the US from 1776-2014 by MCgamingMC
Sad, but no doubt it will prevail. Makes economic and practical sense.
InterPunct t1_j5n6tf4 wrote
There goes the neighborhood.
InterPunct t1_j5n6qsh wrote
Reply to TIL that NBA Player Lou Williams was almost carjacked in 2011, until the thief recognized him and stopped because he was a Lou Williams fan. Lou Williams took him to McDonald's as thanks. by FiNN8778
I have no idea who Lou Williams is but he doesn't seem very bright, if well-intentioned.
InterPunct t1_j4zy15i wrote
Reply to comment by Conan776 in COVID-19 vaccine candidate MVA-CoV2-S confers full protection against SARS-CoV-2 neuroinvasion in humanized mice, preventing brain viral replication and the associated neuronal and vascular damage, even after reinfection, according to a paper published in Nature Neuroscience by MistWeaver80
I didn't realize there were humanized mice.
InterPunct t1_j2b9sce wrote
Reply to comment by fresh_gumbo in TIL in the 1970s, artist Andy Warhol thought that his artwork wouldn’t go up in value after his death. In May of 2022, Warhol’s portrait of Marilyn Monroe sold for $195 Million - making it the most expensive American artwork ever sold at auction. by waitingforthesun92
>He must have been very high during that interview
He was also a bullshitter extraordinaire, so that too.
InterPunct t1_j26j0wa wrote
If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, what does that make the friend of my enemy?
InterPunct t1_j1rtyl2 wrote
Reply to comment by Calius1337 in ELI5: Why are power lines above ground, not buried? by pb_n_bananaz
In lots of places running them above ground is the difference between getting electric service or none at all, especially rural areas.
And if there's a mandate to run them below ground, service would be more reliable, a "tidier" look, etc., but also much more expensive for people in rural areas already struggling financially.
So yeah, in a perfect world energy would be clean, cheap, reliable, and each and every child would be above average.
InterPunct t1_j1kg1ed wrote
Reply to comment by ToyVaren in I finally let Kill Bill into my heart and it's wonderful by Forward_Cranberry_82
We all stand on the shoulders of giants.
InterPunct t1_j1jyskj wrote
Reply to TIL one of the first use of avant-garde technique of tape manipulation in music was the 1955 hit "Jingle Bells" by The Singing Dogs. Using a razor, Carl Weismann cut, then spliced sounds of dog barks together, correcting speed, pitch and melody of the resulting tape. It reached #22 on Billboard. by Bubbly-Incident
"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_you%27re_a_dog
InterPunct t1_j0pmrzl wrote
Reply to comment by rbsudden in TIL: George Carlin was arrested for 7 words. by PseudoPatriotsNotPog
The early 70's was a very strange period in our culture. Source: was sentient at the time.
InterPunct t1_ixor87n wrote
Reply to comment by Moneia in Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers used culinary seasoning in food preparation, according to analysis of the oldest charred food remains ever found by marketrent
Garum is a fermented fish sauce first brought to England by the Romans, who got it from the Phoenicians:
InterPunct t1_iugam7b wrote
Reply to LPT Request: I've come to absolutely loath flying on airplanes, and my new job has me flying a lot. Any tips to make the experience more bearable? by [deleted]
25+ year flying commuter here: besides all the usual comments (water, food, entertainment) just accept that delays may be sometimes significant and are outside your control. Your client/boss needs to accept that but most importantly, so do you.
InterPunct t1_iubme5d wrote
Reply to comment by pk10534 in Loose syringes, dropped drugs hurting pets in NYC’s Tompkins Square Park by NYY657545
There was a homeless city there at one point. Before that it was really a shit hole, IIRC there was a sad, old bandshell there that was depressing to think how it must once have been a nice place. By the 90's when they built a playground and I started seeing baby carriages, it was obvious things were changing for the better.
Sad to hear it's sliding backwards again.
InterPunct t1_iu2hmef wrote
The entirety of the software industry shows being an innovator almost always ends in failure until the next guy learns from you and does it a thousand times better.
Zuck is not wrong, this is epic and for the ages. Possibly as big as the Industrial Revolution. Bankruptcy for him and Facebook would not break my heart, though.
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Reply to comment by noknownothing in Sports like soccer, basketball better for young athletes’ bone health than running alone: Study supports recommendations that young athletes delay specialization in running, focus instead on ‘multidirectional’ sports by MyLifeisAsaJoker
That's the study after they publish Coffee is Good for You/Coffee is Bad for You.
InterPunct t1_jecov7i wrote
Reply to comment by MagicMajed123 in Question About Enjoying David Lynch Films by MagicMajed123
Yeah, stop at Season 2.